Example sentences of "[pron] probably do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I probably did n't appear to be concentrating . |
| 2 | I probably did n't pay enough heed . |
| 3 | And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it . |
| 4 | It was Susy who took up most of the lunchtime conversation , partly because I probably did n't know enough about the sport to talk about it sensibly to James . |
| 5 | Indeed , I probably did n't understand her at the time . |
| 6 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 7 | I went to this game and although I probably do n't deserve to get a ticket I will probably take the opportunity . |
| 8 | The typical agency creative department ( which probably does not exist ) includes both writers and artists . |
| 9 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 10 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 11 | Back in the late '70s an RD Artist bass would have set you back around £800 ( Gibson UK carried an ad that read , ‘ The guitar you probably could n't play , even if you could afford one , ’ which probably did n't help its sales ! — Ed ) . |
| 12 | This was the kind of diversification Daimler should have pursued all along , rather than chasing grandiose ‘ synergies ’ which probably do not exist . |
| 13 | For example , when a speaker discusses a ‘ manpower problem ’ , she probably does not intend to convey that all her employees are male . |
| 14 | ‘ Well ’ , I thought , ‘ she probably does not know how she ought to begin . ’ |
| 15 | No , she probably does n't like it . |
| 16 | oh she probably does n't realize she 's doing it |
| 17 | She probably did n't realise how long the party would go on . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She probably did n't want to upset you , just before you go home . |
| 19 | She probably did n't think she needed curtains , with the room overlooking the railway line , not considering the ambition and initiative of a boy like William . |
| 20 | ‘ So she probably did n't vanish voluntarily , ’ Catherine Crane said , in summary . |
| 21 | Well , she probably did n't look at all ! |
| 22 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 23 | ah tut , tut , tut , I 'm doing the tour not you , cos here we have the plate I bought for Paula correction not Carla , Paula , there you go , with a P , you 're P , which she probably do n't like anyway with the nuts in |
| 24 | Currently , MIS staff have to maintain the integrity and security of corporate data as well as providing users who may not have — and who probably do n't want — knowledge of the database structure , ways to access information . |
| 25 | These figures have always traditionally been very unreliable , but I 'm hoping that it also might indicate that across the country and also in Oxfordshire we are developing what we call out-reach services and the idea is for people to get in contact with drug users who probably do n't want a lot of the time to stop using drugs . |
| 26 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 27 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |
| 28 | Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ? |
| 29 | When you saw what a disaster you had caused , you could of started again and taken some time , oh sorry I forgot that 's not godlike , you probably did n't want to know or is it that you enjoy what you made , a sort of entertainment , better than Home and Away , watching wars and diseases and things . |
| 30 | I decided it was unfair of me to say anything , and that if you wanted the trip so badly you probably did n't want me . |